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BlackBerry Discards Rumours of BBM Release On Android and iOS Platforms by June 27
0By: Ali Raza | June 7th, 2013 | Android, iOS, Mobile Apps, News
Back in May, BlackBerry announced that the popular BlackBerry Messaging service, commonly known as BBM, would be made available on both Android and iOS platform during the summer. However, the Canadian smartphone maker did not give out an exact date for the release. Therefore, when Slashgear revealed a tweet from T-Mobile UK ...
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Cupertino Makes Draft Environmental Impact Report of New Apple Campus Available for Public
By: Ali Raza | June 7th, 2013 | Apple, News
The City of Cupertino made it known on Thursday, June 6 that the draft Environmental Impact Report for Apple’s proposed Campus 2 has been released and people are invited to make a comment. Below is an excerpt from the Environmental Impact Report of the City of Cupertino, which explains the proposal as: “Apple Inc. has submitte...
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Director of National Intelligence says The Guardian and Washington Post Reports Regarding PRISM have Numerous Mistakes
By: Ali Raza | June 7th, 2013 | News
In response to the articles in The Guardian and Washington Post which asserted that US government agencies are keeping a track of users’ data with the help of several top tech companies under a secret program, the Director of National Intelligence, James R. Clapper has claimed that reports related to the PRISM program “contained numerous inaccuracies.” According to Clapper, “Section 702 is...
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Apple Claims It Has No Knowledge of PRISM
By: Ali Raza | June 7th, 2013 | Apple, Google, News
When the Washington Post and The Guardian reported that US Government is monitoring the data of users with the assistance of some top tech companies, the news spread like wildfire as it involves numerous multinational corporations like Apple, Google,
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Stealth Startup Breather Seizes $1.5 Million from Real Ventures and Others Even Before Public Launch
By: Jeff Stewart | June 6th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Even though Breather has not launched its services publicly, the stealth startup has managed to secure a whopping $1.5 million as a result of a seed funding round that was concluded on Wednesday, June 5th. The seed round of Breather was guided by Canada-based Real Ventures with contributions also coming from Gary Vaynerchuk, Mike Walsh, an investor of Uber and Loic Le Meur. With this funding round...
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Samsung Officially Introduces Galaxy S IV Active, a Dust and Water Resistant Smartphone Designed Especially for “Active Users”
By: Jeff Stewart | June 6th, 2013 | Android, News, Smartphones
South Korean manufacturer Samsung finally decided to make the Galaxy S IV Active official, after it appeared in the leaked images a few days ago. Samsung announced the new handset on Wednesday, June 5, which is a new variant of the most successful smartphone to date, the Galaxy S IV. The S IV Active is not only different from it...
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Canada-Based Startup Coding Jar Launches First Indie Game On Windows 8 Instead of BlackBerry and Others Popular Platforms
By: Ali Raza | June 6th, 2013 | Android, Business, iOS, News, O Canada
Renowned developer and consultant, Jodon Karlik, always had a great love for video games. In fact it was his dream to develop games and he finally got the chance to live his dream. He founded a startup by the name of Coding Jar in 2011 to create independent games. Karlik’s hard work paid off, as two years after foundin...
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Apple Infringes on Samsung Patents, Likely to Face Limited Ban on Some iPad and iPhone Models
By: Ali Raza | June 6th, 2013 | Apple, News, Smartphones, Tablets
The patents wars between Apple and Samsung is not new, as the two companies having been fighting over this issue for several years now. In fact, a court has even ruled one of the patent cases in favour of Apple and ordered Samsung to pay the Cupertino-based comp...
